About the LBMC

The Long Beach Media Collaborative is a team of reporters and editors from four newsrooms across the city: the Press-Telegram, Long Beach Post, Grunion Gazette and Long Beach Business Journal.

Convened by the Long Beach Community Foundation with funding from the Knight Foundation, LBMC supports a new model for producing in-depth, local journalism.

Our first series—Strengthening the Signal—examined an unsettling shortage of Internet access within the city and considers ways to bridge the gap.

In the next phase of its partnership, the collaborative will tackle another divide: the disparities that have created a housing crisis in Long Beach.

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Can Long Beach’s Fiber Master Plan Bridge The Digital Divide?

City leaders are on the verge of unveiling a 300-page report on a project that holds the potential to connect everyone in Long Beach to the Internet in…

Can Long Beach be the Next Burbank or Santa Monica?

A look at how two cities are connecting their public facilities and their residents to the Internet.

The Challenges Of Job Hunting Without The Internet

Up until three months ago, Stelena Anderson and her family lived without Internet at home, relying on family members, libraries, an unemployment center and places such as McDonald’s…

The Human Factor: How A Long Beach Nonprofit Is Bridging The Digital Divide

On a humid August afternoon, Gustavo Trujillo and his pregnant fiancée, Samahara Chavez, waited outside the Los Angeles Council District 8 office on Vermont Avenue for something they…

Long Beach May Consider 15% Inclusionary Zoning Ordinance

You can talk about a national housing shortage, but in Southern California it can easily be called a housing crisis.